Ms. Ley joined the Troy Children's Chorus as director in the spring of 2014 to continue founding director Maury Castro's mission of creating high quality choral music in the spririt of respect and peace. Singing in a chorus is one of the best ways for children to experience that they are an important part of something beautiful. Ms. Ley has been teaching music for ten years. After earning her undergraduate degree in music from Austin College, she studied opera at the Kansas City Conservatory and studied Kodály with Dr. Susan Brumfield and Dr. Amy Huggins. Ms. Ley also has completed Orff levels one and two with Gloria Fuoco-Lawson, and has taken intensive Dalcroze training in NYC under the tutelage of Ann Farber and Cynthia Lilly. She is currently completing her graduate degree in Music Education at the Collge of St. Rose in Albany.

Since moving from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley in the summer of 2011, Shelly has ceated and developed a family music class, Little Wings Music. She is director of the Prep Choir at TSL in Hudson, and a youth choir in Athens, NY. She is thrilled to be leading this dynamic group of young singers in Troy.

Shelly can be contacted at:

Troy Children's Chorus at First United Presbyterian Church1915 Fifth AvenueTroy, New York 12180505.401.8882troyccdirector@gmail.comEMAIL ME